#independences day

[stil-lindigo]

this 4th of July, please consider donating to some palestinian escape funds that are close to meeting their goal!

1.Urgent Relief : Help Shadi's Family Evacuate Gaza - $12,058 / 15,000 < ONLY $3000 AWAY

(vouched for and vetted on twitter)

2. Help Moayed Escape the War in Gaza to Safety - €3,100 / 10,000

(vouched for and vetted on twitter)

3. Trapped Family in Gaza Appeals for Help to Survive - €32,430 / 38,000 < ONLY $5570 AWAY

(verified by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein)

4. Help Anas family in Gaza- $12,257 / 20,000

(verified and vetted by @/nabulsi)

5. Help two sisters from Gaza to achieve their dreams - €22,108/ 30,000

6. Help My Gazan Family Escape War: Urgent Aid for Surgery - $15,670 / 25,000

(vouched for by Thaer from this separate fund)

[nyancrimew]

can you explain the ai thing to me as though I were a small child I am in fact very stupid and don't understand what the point being made was supposed to be

the point i am trying to make it that ai is fundamentally a labor issue (and just more broadly a capitalism issue) and should be treated as such, any attempts at trying to classify what makes something "not real art" is a slippery slope leading towards fascism and fundamentally irrelevant in the fight against unethical (uses of) AI. the same goes for any attempts at just making copyright laws more strict, this has never helped any independent artists and never will, at best it'll make any sort of derivative art (including fanart, remixes, collages, etc) basically impossible to do unless you're a massive corporation with an unlimited legal budget.

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[whenweallvote]

Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.

Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.

[hunxi-after-hours]

"If rest becomes a form of recovery from work, as is the case today, it loses its specific ontological value. It no longer represents an independent, higher form of existence and degenerates into a derivative of work. Today's compulsion of production perpetuates work and thus eliminates that sacred silence. Life becomes entirely profane, desecrated."

—Han Byung-Chul, The Disappearance of Rituals (trans. Daniel Steuer)

[mysharona1987]

Happy Independence Day!

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[happyroadkillart]

🇺🇸 🦅 🦅🦅

[useless-bulgariafacts]

Whatever the case, feel free to write long-winded explanations in the tags, I WILL read them!

[stupidneko]

happy 27 august from Hatsune Miku

[theriu]

This is a gentle, earnest reminder to anyone who needs to hear it that no matter what the media tries to tell you, no matter how fearmongering some people try to be, no matter what happens in this one election, it will be okay. Please don't lose hope if your candidate doesn't win. The world will not end no matter who gets into office. Some people want us to be afraid and at each others' throats, but hating each other isn't going to make things better or solve our problems. We're all people and we all have value.

If things get too stressful, you are not weak or wrong to take time for yourself, away from the news and the yelling, and focus on all of the beautiful, good things in your life that aren't going away. Family. Friends. Sunshine. Your favorite snack. Pretty colors. Pets. Those funny memes. That show you like. A warm beverage.

Rest. Humans are not meant to carry every weight of the world on their shoulders at once. Allow yourself to trust and believe that there is still good in the world no matter who is in office.

[spider-artdump]

[maicaronns]

malaysian miku design!!

[johnnydany]

4th Of July Video Games American Flag Gamer T-Shirt

Get yours now: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/47172194-4th-of-july-video-games-american-flag-gamer

[taylornation]

Happy Independence Day! This post aged well. Like this and comment that you’re an independent girlie for good luck. 😎

[elliespectacular]

When I was in middle school I made the useless discovery that "independence-day" could be arrived at in Pig Latin by translating the made-up word Dindependence.

In my US history class we were writing essays on the topic of July 4 and the obvious title for the essay would have just been "Independence Day" so I wrote it at the top of my paper, my stupid little Pig Latin discovery buzzing in my brain all the while.

Later during class the teacher calls me up to the desk. Imagine Wilford Brimley after waiting an hour for a coffee. That was my teacher's appearance and affect at all times. He calls me up, holds my paper upright pointing to the title, and delivers the most perfect, incredulous, deadpan "... Dindependence?"